When the iOS 16 compatibility list was announced, it was a cause of celebration. Sure, the iPhone 7 and earlier were out of the running, but that still meant the iPhone 8 was in line for the new update. The five-year-old iPhone is now the oldest iPhone…
Electronics and smart home gadgets bring convenience and automation to your home and often need minimal maintenance, save for the odd firmware update — that is, unless you live in a place that gets an actual winter. While most shoppers are eager to set…
The Pac-12 conference will crown a champion on December 2 when the No. 11 Utah Utes take on the No. 4 USC Trojans. In the schools’ previous meeting on October 15, Utah upset USC 43-42, handing the Trojans their only loss on the season. USC will be out …
The success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is unprecedented. It’s the highest-grossing film franchise of all time with a worldwide gross of over $28 billion. To put that into context, the second-highest-grossing franchise is Star Wars at $…
Let’s admit it: the design of laptops hasn’t changed much over the years. And that’s OK.
But that doesn’t mean there isn’t some real innovation happening. I’m not talking about just fruitless experimentation either, (though there will always be some o…
“Gotta say Elden Ring becomes so much less fun at the end.”
On May 24, 2021, my friend Andrew Thomas pinged me via Facebook chat with that message. While I had crammed most of the game into a single frantic week in February to review it for launch, An…
Rejects, get your lasguns and chainswords ready. There’s a heretic about in Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, and it’s up to you and three other criminals to venture into the Hive city of Tertium, eradicate the plague, and wipe out the traitors before heresy…
In Irreverent, Paulo Keegan (Colin Donnell) is on the run. As a criminal mediator for the mob in Chicago, Paulo kills a member of the mafia, forcing him to flee the country. At a bar, he meets Reverend Mackenzie Boyd (P.J. Byrne), a clergyman who recen…
Thanks to games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, self-described “cozy games” have become much more popular. Often nonviolent and relaxing, there are whole showcases dedicated to this type of game. Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs …
After a grueling seven-month wait, golf has finally come to Nintendo Switch Sports. Better late than never, right?
Like the rest of the games included in Switch Sports, the version of golf included here is fairly straightforward. Players swing the joy-…
Huawei and Leica created some of the very best camera phones I’ve ever used, with the P20 Pro, in particular, igniting my interest in mobile photography. The Apple iPhone has always provided it with a strong challenge, and for a long time, an iPho…
While several video games include Indigenous characters and themes, few have been made with creative control and design choices in the hands of people from whom these inspirations are drawn. That’s a big part of what makes Two Falls (Nishu Takuats…
With Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion’s release date fast approaching, you may be debating what platform to buy it on. It’ll launch on everything from PC to Nintendo Switch, and there’s a fair reason to get it on each. A PS5 or Xbox Series X…
Nvidia has a strong pedigree for making great graphics cards. It has never really been the underdog and its greatest GPUs outshone those of its rival AMD time and time again. But despite Nvidia’s penchant for innovation and technological advancement, i…
Eating the rich is usually a metaphor, but in The Menu, it’s a little more literal. The movie, which follows a group of wealthy people who have paid for an extravagant meal on a secluded island, is a pointed satire filled with smart surprises.
Directed…